The old Snake Scare of Summit County is the
story du jour from our pal Ken Summers. Thrill to the yarns spun about
the fabled Peninsula Python Posse, their misadventures, and the ophidian
legacy celebrated every summer despite being a sore spot for old
timers. Sadly Karl Shuker was barely a glint in his parents's eyes
during that kerfuffle since he could've helped settle the score on Sarah
the Snake. Today Karl toots his own horn, reminiscing on The Oldeani Monster - How I Helped To Rediscover And Identify A Lost Species Of Mystery Chameleon.
More surprising is how Karl found the beast in the library, not in the
field, where he connected the dots between two disparate sources that
most mainstream biologists would've ignored. It's fitting that Rex
Gilroy shares his wisdom, "You have to have enthusiasm for what you do,
otherwise you find nothing." And if any citizens of Oz Got A Yowie Story
then contact Rex or the Wingham Chronicle as the yowie is becoming the
trending topic down under. For everyone north of the equator, there's a
fine overview of the yowie and what's been suspected about its nature
and behavior.

A team of 38 experts will set off on an
expedition in China's Shennongjia Nature Reserve in search of rarely
sighted and nearly extinct flora and fauna of the region. Also rumored
to roam the area is the Yeren, a hairy bipedal primate that may well be
Bigfoot's cousin. Meanwhile, Micah Hanks is Chasing the Beast to its Lair: The Wild Man in Myth and Culture and giving us some cultural background to the Yeren along with the Yeti and Sasquatch.

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Nick Redfern brings us cryptid oddness in a slightly different form,
with a collection of real werewolf reports, both historical and modern.
Sufferers of lycanthropy have historically been treated with little
respect or sympathy and many were put to death by burning at the stake.
Since then, lychanthropy has been recognized as a real, genuine mental
disorder but is still misunderstood. Meanwhile, Michael Higgins of
Bigfoot Evidence exclaims Gigantopithecus? Hold on a sec...
and attempts to dispel the theory that Sasquatch is an offshoot of a
certain primate family tree and wonders that perhaps instead Bigfoot
grew to gargantuan sizes because of evolution due to his environment. In
crypto-cat news, Police Say Big Cats Seen In Northeast Ky
where residents say only deer used to roam, and a Strange Cat Attack Isiolo Livestock
in Kenya is panicking villagers.

In the 1990s, Mike Cleary was in a diving bell
with a companion off the south-east coast of Japan, checking bottom
sites for an oil rig, when a 25-foot-long creature with no visible
scales approached the bell and circled it. The head was like a sea
horse's, the eyes like a cow's, and teeth like a barracuda's, and it
swam with horizontal undulations. What was it? In other cryptid news,
the familiar question is posed: The Hairy Man of the Vergas Trails — fact or fiction? The new SyFy series Haunted Highway
makes its way to the small community of Vergas, Minnesota, to try their
luck at uncovering what is behind all the Hairy Man claims in the area
that have intrigued many over the past five decades. The accounts tell
of a humanoid-like figure, seven-to-eight feet tall, with long shaggy
hair, and having a musky odor. The show airs July 3rd.